Ladder 85

Tower Ladder 85 2nd due into box 1431, 119 Laconia Ave, fire on the 2nd floor of a private dwelling.

Tower Ladder 85 2nd due into box 1099, 65 Newberry Ave, basement fire in a private dwelling.

Tower Ladder 85 first due into box 2068. 909 Patterson Ave, fire in a row of town houses. Box 2068 ultimately became a 4th alarm as the fire spread to 6 other town houses in the row.

The officers and members of Tower Ladder 85 want to wish everybody a Happy and safe Easter!

Tower Ladder 85 into box 1074 as the fast truck, 110 Holly Street, Deck fire with extension to a private dwelling.

Tower Ladder 85 first due on the 2nd alarm, box 0648. 15 Harbor View Place, heavy fire throughout a 2 1/2 story private dwelling.

Tower Ladder 85 first due into 2nd alarm
Box 1608, 30 East Loop Road, fire in a private dwelling

Tower Ladder 85 first due into box 2471, 35 Dale Ave, fire 2nd floor of a private dwelling

Tower Ladder 85 into 4th alarm box 3592 as the extra truck, 88 Shotwell Ave, fire in 2 private dwellings.

Tower Ladder 85 extra truck on the all hands, 2 alarm Box 3512 96 & 94 Lorrain Ave, heavy fire in 2 private dwellings with reports of people trapped

Tower Ladder 85 extra truck into all hands box 3620, 16 Notus Ave, deck fire with extension to an exposure.

Tower Ladder 85 2nd due into box 1493, 414 Garretson Ave, fire on the first floor of a multiple dwelling.

Tower Ladder 85 2nd due into box 1833. 414 Dongan Hills Ave, fire in the basement of a private dwelling.

Tower Ladder 85 first due into box 2949, 3 Marisa Court. Fire first floor in a 3 story attached private dwelling.

The Officers and memebers of Tower Ladder 85 wish everybody a Merry Christmas, be safe and enjoy!

Engine 165/T.L. 85 will once again be collecting for our partnership with Sunrise Assisted Living. Any donation can be dropped off at the firehouse, 3067 Richmond Rd, SI NY. Donations must be in before 12/14/22 Thanks!

Tower Ladder 85 into box 0679, 104 McClean Ave, fire on the first floor of a 3 story mixed occupancy. TL 85 assigned as the extra truck

Tower Ladder 85 first due into box 2078, 2242 Hylan Blvd. Fidel first floor of a commercial occupancy.

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Lt. Charles “Chuck” Margiotta
On 9/11/01 Lt. Margiotta of Tower Ladder 85 responded to the World Trade Center attacks and sadly lost his life that day. The officers and members of Ladder 85 will have Lt. Margiotta in their thoughts and prayers as we pay our respects to all who were lost on that tragic day. We continue to keep his memory alive and pass down his legacy to all our newer members. Chuck, we will never forget! R.I.P. Brother!

Tower Ladder 85 into box 3197, 3579 Victory Blvd x Travis Avenue. Fire in a strip mall. Fire went to a 4th alarm before going under control. Fire was in the cockloft of multiple stores. Eng 165 first due on the 2nd alarm. TL 85 as the fast truck

Tower Ladder 85 2nd due into box 1835, 332 Naughton Ave, fire on the exterior of a private dwelling.

Tower Ladder 85 into 3rd alarm box 4141 80/82/84 Pitney Ave, heavy fire in 3 private dwellings.

Tower Ladder 85 into box 1956, 77 Gary Court, fire in a private dwelling. Multiple calls reporting fire at location. 85 as the extra truck

Tower Ladder first due into box 2495, Beacon Ave /Walden Ave for smoke from the roof. On arrival smoke pushing from the roof, fire in the attic, corrected address 141 Beacon Ave.

Tower Ladder 85 into box 0626 as extra truck, 90 & 92 Maryland Ave, fire in the rear with extension to the upper floors and the exposure.

TL 85 into box 1177. 586 Gulf Ave. Fire on the roof of the ikea warehouse. 85 to set up for TL operation on the 1/2 corner

Tower Ladder 85 operating at Manhattan 5th alarm box 0143. Requested for 95 ft tower ladder

Tower Ladder 85 into box 3171 as the fast truck. 17 Watson Ave, fire on the rear deck extended to the private dwelling. All hands extra engine/extra truck.

Ladder 85 2nd due into box 1776. 460 Brielle Ave, fire 2nd floor in a vacant 6 story. Box is now a 2nd alarm. Heavy clutter conditions present.

Tower Ladder 85 first due into box 2476. 10 Holly place fire in a private dwelling with people trapped. Fire was on the 2nd floor.

Tower Ladder into box 2834 as the FAST truck. 154 Exeter street @ Dewey Ave. fire in a one story private dwelling.

Tower Ladder 85 into box 2819, 100 Jumel Street as the FAST truck. Fire first floor kitchen.

TL 85 first due into box 2265. 545 Mill Road @ Adelaide Ave. Box loaded up due to calls. Shed fire extended to private dwelling.

We will never forget!

Today is the birthday of FDNY Lt. Charles “Chuck” Margiotta of Battalion 22. He was born on January 15, 1957, and would have been 65 years old today. We will never forget the ultimate sacrifice that he made on September 11, 2001.

There's a story — so old it must be true — about the time some wannabe hardcase was trying to pick a fight at Demyan's Hofbrau in Stapleton, another piece of Staten Island that isn't here anymore.

"You Chuck Margiotta?"

"Yeah."

"I heard you were tough. You don't look so tough."

The guy took a swing. Mr. Margiotta took it, and turned back to face his attacker, who braced for the mayhem that was certain to follow.

"If that's the best you've got," Mr. Margiotta told him, "you better sit next to me and have a beer."

Lt. Charles (Chuck) Margiotta was a tough guy — a football player, movie stuntman and 20-year veteran of the Fire Department — long before the morning of Sept. 11, when he heard the news on his truck radio and drove to the nearest firehouse in time to jump on the rig with the guys from Rescue Co. 5 in Concord. Now, he is among the thousands missing as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center.

But beneath his forbidding exterior — the stern facade, the tattoos and 240 pounds of muscle — was a gardener who nurtured tomato plants alongside Ladder Co. 85 in New Dorp; a caring neighbor who ran into the street in his pajamas to help an elderly woman who had fallen; a loving father who coached his kids' basketball, softball and soccer teams.

"He was the nicest tough guy I ever met," said Jimmy Ernst, a classmate at Monsignor Farrell High School.

For every burning building he ran into, there are three stories about the college student who brought stranded classmates home at Thanksgiving; the Samaritan who plowed every sidewalk on the block when it snowed; the hunter who stopped to give mouth-to-straw-to-beak resuscitation to a bird that had fallen from a tree.

"He was the champion of the underdog," said his brother, Mike. "If you were the kid nobody wanted in a choose-up game, you wouldn't be his last pick. You'd be his first pick."

Mr. Margiotta, 44, lived most of his life on the same block in Meiers Corners, where he knew everyone by name. He played football almost as long — at Monsignor Farrell, where he was a hard-blocking tight end and a member of the National Honor Society; at Brown University, where he was an undersized nose guard, and later for the Fire Department team and in the Staten Island Touch Tackle League. When Brown's 1976 Ivy League champions were honored at their 20th reunion, his teammates chose Mr. Margiotta to speak for them.

But football wasn't his first sport. He was an indefatigable outdoorsman, having learned to hunt and fish at an early age.

"That was his passion," said his father, Charles Vito. "If you were in the woods, lost, you wanted to be with Chuck."

Marriage and children didn't curb that enthusiasm for the outdoors. He just rearranged his schedule, often leaving in the dead of night to go hunting, so he could be home to coach a soccer game later that day. He was the youth basketball director at St. Rita's R.C. Parish in Meiers Corners.

After graduating from Brown with a double major in English and sociology, Mr. Margiotta worked for General Motors before being called by the Fire Department in 1981. He was first in his class at probie school and worked 15 years at Ladder Co. 40 in Harlem, earning eight departmental citations.

After his promotion to lieutenant in 1996, he was assigned to Staten Island's 22nd Battalion, and spent the bulk of that time as an interim lieutenant at Ladder Co. 85.

At the time of his death, the paperwork had just been finalized on his permanent assignment to Ladder Co. 83 in Westerleigh.

In his "spare" time, Mr. Margiotta found time to work as a stuntman in dozens of feature films, including "Hannibal"; as a private investigator, and for 20 years as a substitute school teacher for the New York City Board of Education.

"He wasn't happy," his brother said, "unless he was doing four things at once." He was driving home from Brooklyn after working a "mutual" for another officer Sept. 11 when he heard the news on the radio, turned off the Staten Island Expressway and found the Rescue Co. 5 truck ready to go.

His wife was working, so Mr. Margiotta called his mother from the speeding rig, concerned that because he wasn't on a duty roster, nobody would know where he was.

By then, the men from Rescue Co. 5 were minutes from the World Trade Center, close enough to see the horror awaiting them.

"Ma, it's bad," Mr. Margiotta told his mother, Molly. "I love you."

Then he was gone, leaving a neighborhood in mourning, wondering who's going to be there the next time somebody falls in the street, and who's going to clear the sidewalks when it snows.

Just last week an elderly man in the local 7-Eleven, where Mr. Margiotta often stopped for his morning coffee, spotted a button his father wears bearing the missing fireman's picture, and started to cry.

"Bring him back," the old man wailed. "Please just bring him back."

Tower Ladder 85 first due into box 1842. Fire 2nd floor of a restaurant.

The officers and members of FDNY Tower Ladder 85 would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Tower Ladder 85 first due into box 2618, fire 3rd floor in 6 story NFP MD.

Mill Road @ Tysens Lane

Probably:
E165, E162, E159, E161
T085, L082, L081F
RS05, SQ08
BC. 23, 21
Div. 8
E152T SAT5